Mamba-based Selective State Space Modeling Improves the Accuracy-Complexity Tradeoff of SmolVLA Vision-Language-Action Experts

arXiv:2608.21407v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models face a crucial tradeoff between their task success rate and the policy-call frequency. Executing a single action per inference ($N=1$) enables accurate robot control but comes at the cost of huge compute time overhe